BSW/BSN then PMHNP

Specialties Psychiatric

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Hi, I am in high school and I want to be a Psychiatric NP. I heard that Psychiatric NP school teaches you more on medications than therapy. By law, a Psych NP can do therapy, so can I take a BSW degree with my BSN degree at the same time? Will a BSW degree teach me how to do therapy? After I take my BSN/BSW, I will take my DNP in Psychiatric Nursing. Does that sound good?

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Specializes in Outpatient Psychiatry.

More degrees suck your, steal your youth, and add distress to your life. An unnecessary social work degree won't "empower" your NP career.

Empower= social work buzz word

If neuroscience is an option, however, you could learn something nursing fails to teach.

Trust us old folks. College degrees without financial results are stupid. Enlightening degrees are merely hobbies.

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Specializes in Outpatient Psychiatry.

I swear I typed "money," I.e. more degrees suck your money.

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A BSW won't teach you anything about doing psychotherapy. All a BSW does is prepare you for an MSW program.

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